NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9350
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
AMD FireStream 9350 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1376 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FireStream 9350
+950%
2.016 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
18
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1440
32
TMUs
72
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
403.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Cypress
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
